Social Sciences and History / Unit 7 SSH 0610 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Three-Fifths and the Convention's Bargain on Slavery
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The idea
The Three-Fifths Compromise let slaveholding states count all their free population and three-fifths of their enslaved population for both apportionment and federal taxation, though no taxes were collected. Another bargain traded import taxes for a twenty-year ban on ending the slave trade.
In practice
Three-fifths is sixty percent, the anchor's phrasing.
Where people slip
It satisfied no one truly, the anchor says.
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